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Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later,… — Elliot Perlman
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the… — David Nicholls
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio. — Douglas Kennedy
As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by… — Enrique Vila-Matas
I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed… — Frances Mayes
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time… — Francine Rivers
I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I… — Francine Rivers
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle,… — James Fenton
I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals. — Marsha Norman
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write. — Marsha Norman
I learned a long time ago that if I really wanted to bring my ideas into experience, I needed to write down my intentions. When… — Mary Manin Morrissey
I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find… — Mark Helprin
Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write. — Jon Scieszka
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I… — Jon Scieszka
I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road. — Linda Sue Park
If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me… — Lois Lowry
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions. — Louis Sachar
I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game… — Louis Sachar
Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did.… — Randy Houser
The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of… — Rich Cohen

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